Word: gorgeousity
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Last week, thousands trooped to Donskoi-this time to the Cathedral, where the bright yellows of Claudio's frescos, the Titian-red of ikons, the jeweled lamps broke the darkness. Upon a catafalque near the altar was laid a dead and gorgeous prelate, a mitre on his head, silks and satins about his body-his white hands stretched out. The thousands sobbed and groaned while priest after priest intoned the sacred words which Dr. Tikhon could not hear...
...fingers. I thought of Hamlet's father and my hands shook clumsily as though covered with gore. After three minutes intercourse with the departed. I dried my hands on my handkerchief and arrived late for my next class. Since that time, when feeling particularly optimistic. I have tried these gorgeous white elephants, but always with the same result. My handkerchief is somewhat small for a towel and I should like to recommend that these machines be turned over in Margery wherewith in frighten visitors to her seances, and some plebeian towels be substituted in their stead. Gurdon S. Howe...
Following the moonlit battle, the combined fleets- the U. S. Fleet- steamed northward from Magdelena Bay and came to anchor at San Diego and Coronado Roads- 114 craft, including the airplane carrier Langley and the supply ships. Fourteen gorgeous admirals took part in the quarterdeck receptions...
...have one gorgeous building, anyway," he says, and there is no possibility of reproducing the brogue, or the cadence or the Hit of the voice. "What is he, that big fellow with the gold top?" "They do funny things to you in New York," he goes on. "A man came at me sudden out of a doorway the other day, and he says : 'Have you any use for a lady's necklace ?" Now I didn't know the answer to that, so I looked at him puzzled for a while, then I thought of it. Td rather...
...attachment for the Empress Eugenie. On this framework, a generous interpolation of fancy and invention has been hung. As narrative, the production is naturally negligible; it develops some humor and immense opportunity for scenery and singing. Taste and dollars have made the sets just about the most gorgeous series of pictorial effects in town. An able vocal assembly, headed by Dorothy Francis, swings melodiously through a score based on the best works of the play-hero Offenbach...